Bash Profile in macOS

1. Create the .bash_profile
2. Edit the .bash_profile
3. Delete the .bash_profile

In this article, we’re going to discuss how we can create, delete, and edit the bash profile in macOS.

Create the .bash_profile

To create a .bash_profile, open the terminal and move to your home directory with the below command.

cd ~/

Now you can create the .bash_profile by using the following command.

touch .bash_profile

Edit the .bash_profile

Now, let’s edit the .bash_profile. We can edit this file inside the terminal.

To do this, we need to execute the following command.

vi ~/.bash_profile

If the .bash_profile is large, it may become open in a default mode to edit in the terminal. Here we can use TextEdit for this purpose.

First, open a text editor like TextEdit, open the file and move to your home directory. If the file is hidden, then unhide the file by pressing the command + shift + .

You can use the below line of code to open the .bash_profile with the text editor TextEdit.

open -a TextEdit.app ~/.bash_profile

Delete the .bash_profile

To delete the .bash_profile, open the finder app in macOS and go to the home directory. If the file is hidden, then unhide the file.

Afterward, select the bash profile and press the command + delete to delete the file.

Please note that all the methods discussed here focus on the macOS environment.